The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1887-04-14

ABOUT PEOPLE AND THINGS.

SAN FRANCISCO Alta The really great leader
is the partner who leads trump OPPORTUNITY.
FERDINAND WARD is the star singer in the
Protestant choir in the Sing Sing penitentary.
THE of the telephone is becoming very
common in Germany. Berlin alone has 5,5O7
stations.
MACON Telegraph: 1t - evident now that 1887
will be known postertv as the year in which
summer got in before spring
NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. JONES. of New York.
is to share this years profits of his Binghamton
scale factory with his employees.
PAUL PHILLIPPoTEAU. the French artist who
painted the Battle of Gettysburg" is now at
work on cyclorama of Niagara Falls.
ACCORDING TO a scientific article women have
been known to grow three sets of back teeth
But most sets over and above the second grow
at the dentists
QUEEN VICTORIA is much pleased with a pho
tograrh recently taken of herself by new
process. which is described as making the picture
look exactly like an etching
GEN. GEORGE A. SHERIDAN recently lectured
at Washington in reply to the anti Christian Ut
terances OF Colonel Ingersoli, and made eight
times as much money out of it as Colonel Ipger-
soil made out of his first lecture
DURING the absence of Miss Booth in Europe.
Helen Conant will have editorial charge of Har
per's Bazaar. She is the wife, or widow. Of
Stillman Conant. who was for years connected
with the New York Times. About a year ago
he disappeared and has never been heard from
since.
JENNY LIND, who once set New Workers wild
and made the fortune of several hatters, is now
white haired severe and cynical. No one would
believe her to be the nightingale of whom the
warbler wrote: 20 Jenny, she's wonder every
where she goes She's got voice enchanting
and Swedish turn-up nose"
Practically, California has four United
States Senators Nevada Senators never live in
that State but. when not in Washington, make
their home il San Francisco. Fair, whose term
has just expired did not spend a week in Ne
vada during his six years Senator Jones
lives IN San Francisco as does Stewart, who
succeeds Fair.
BUFFALO mans wife lost her diamond ring
from a railroad train. The conductor wouldn't
stop, and the pair got off the next station,
and the Buffalonian, walking back three miles
to farm house that he had noticed just before
the ring disappeared began a close search.
After two hours hard work he found it lying
against tie and glistening in the sunlight
The late Lady Strancford, one of the worlds
greatest philanthropists. administered in 1877 a
large fund for the relief of the wounded in the
front with staff of nurses and opened hospitals
on every battlefield. While engaged in this
noble work she seized by the Russians and
treated with characteristics brutality, from the
effects of which she never recovered.
ROBERT E. LEES daughter, Miss Mary, is a
| great traveller She has Travelled in nearly
every civilized country in the world, and is sell
| dom seen in her native State. 1t will be remem
| bered that she one Of the few American
| ladies in Rome VINO were present at the hating
| of Cardinal Gibbons a few weeks ago. She and
| the Cardinal are old friends having known each
other we'll while he was Bishop of Richmond
| THE late Rev. Henry D. Jardiue against
| whom a notable scandal was raised and who
| was declared to have committed suicide is to
| have fine memorial altar in the new ST. Mary's
| Protestant Episcopal Church at Kansas City,
| Mo. His friends are cordially subscribing tc
/ the fund for this purpose, thus showing their
! confidence In his exaltation of character and
| their detestaton of the attacks made upon him
AT the recent paperchase in Washington
underline auspices OF Mr.. Gregor, of the Russian
| legation, Butler Malone, who won first prize
was not invited guest. According to English
| custom, number of horsemen started with the
hounds who had not been personally asked tc
| join the hunt. The ex-Senators son was one Of
these, and. being well-mounted and a skillfu
| rider. was the winner of the SIS diamond pin
| Some of the young bloods who feel socially
| superior to Malone objected to his being awarded
the prize, but Mr.. Gregor gave it to him, never
! theless and Malone now wears it.